Lysander Spooner: “In this manner the king usurped the selection of the jurors who were to sit in judgment upon his own laws.”

From the sale of that justice which every citizen has a right to demand, it was an easy transition to withhold or deny it.

Any restriction upon the exercise of this right is a restriction upon his rightful power of providing for, and accomplishing, his own well-being.

It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.

In nearly or quite all the States of the United States the juries are illegal, for one or the other of the same reasons that make the juries in England illegal.